skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes: if his "plan" was to defame an employer, he'd want to conceal his views (which, again, are completely irrelevant here) as opposed to express them in a transparent fashion (which he does).

Finally, you have to wonder, how much of abuse the employer had to dish out to turn (judging from the picture) an apolitical gamer-hipster-nerd into an anti-colonial radical. I don't want to make this story about me, but as a secular
Jew who immigrated from former USSR as a teen, I can say that experiencing racism firsthand tends to change your perspective.
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> Test your changes independently, and make incremental changes

That was my take-away as well. I'm prone to accumulating a list of changes that I'd like to make to my site and then, when change fever strikes, I do them all in unison. When something goes wrong (or right), it's impossible to tell which change had what effect. It's a hard habit to break.
There are official third-party stores in Microsoft store:

http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/softonic/e717f589...

http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/intel-appup-r-cen...
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Someone else could do this right now. That could be a reasonable startup idea. I’m not experienced enough to know but this seems like it could be in the ballpark of sounding like a bad idea but not being (akin to what PG describes in his black swan essay).
Why Leo Traynor’s troll story may be a lie
Just wanted to say that the landing page could do a better job explaining what this tool is. It took me almost 30 minutes before I figured out what this new product did. I didn't know what these "tags" were that kept getting mentioned.
If you're already comfortable, the next best thing to do is start reading the Emacs manual from start to finish.

You'll soon run across things you don't take advantage of (it was registers and org-mode for me).
I too own a 1st gen iPad. I use it ever day. I don't update. You don't need to....Mine still works fine and I love it. I upgraded my iPhone 4s to OS6 and have had no issues. So my iPad has outdated software and my iPhone has the newest. They talk to each other. Try reverting back to an older OS. Also go in and have an apple geek analyze your iPad. Twice now I've had issues with slow response that were resolved through an apple analysis. Just make sure you have everything backed up.
>Mumps and Cache

Had to look those up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cach%C3%A9_(software)
I don't have this problem, currently. But I've previously used boring, lucrative work to bootstrap my way into more interesting work. Here are the steps:

1. Identify what you would rather do

2. Keep doing boring work, but part time

3. Reduce expenses

4. Use money from boring work to subsidize skill development in interesting area

5. Switch to interesting area

Obviously, this only works in fields where you can get away with ~4 per day spent on your main work.
Yes, if the bottom of the iceberg-hole is below sea level.

If the mantle at the bottom of this new bore-hole is under pressure and liquid, then it will go up the bore hole until the pressure above it equals the pressure below. If the bottom of the bore-hole hits a part of a liquid mantle with a lot of pressure, then we might get a volcano. Hence, Moria.
Interesting article. However, I'm a little surprised that an article about women at ycombinator didn't include Paul Graham's own rumination on the issue...

http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html

"This is one reason Y Combinator has a rule against investing in startups with only one founder. Practically every successful company has at least two. And because startup founders work under great pressure, it's critical they be friends.

I didn't realize it till I was writing this, but that may help explain why there are so few female startup founders. I read on the Internet (so it must be true) that only 1.7% of VC-backed startups are founded by women. The percentage of female hackers is small, but not that small. So why the discrepancy?

When you realize that successful startups tend to have multiple founders who were already friends, a possible explanation emerges. People's best friends are likely to be of the same sex, and if one group is a minority in some population, pairs of them will be a minority squared."
The Causes website says he's chairman of the board, not CEO. That's a huge difference. My comment wasn't meant to denigrate Causes, which is great.

By all accounts Parker is full time at Airtime. He has $2 billion of wealth, non-trivial technical and business skill, and another 40+ years of lifespan to tackle one or more of the world's toughest problems. It doesn't exactly help silicon valley's public image when one of its most public faces does a huge hyped up launch for... chat roulette redux. After the unfortunate post-IPO performance of groupon, facebook, and zynga, the perception of silicon valley is in bad enough shape as it is.
I'm guessing you're not accustomed to the arduino parlance. Everyone knows arduino uses an atmel atmega uC, but when you say "arduino mega" it means something specific. I have around 5 different models of atmega chips at home that I use with the arduino.

In the video they said they were using a mega, and you can tell from the picture that the atmel chip is a surface mount similar to the 2560. All the arduino chips use some kind of atmega variant, but the arduino mega refers to the atmega1280 or the atmega2560. The most common arduino chip is the atmega328p.

The atmega series is fairly broad. The arduinos only use a subset of the atmega series. "mega" is probably a bit confusing, but if you say "arduino mega" it only refers to one or two specific chips -- the old "arduino mega" used the atmega1280 while the newer model uses the atmega2560.
It's definitely better than the Dell, HP, Intel pages or IBM pages, in my opinion.
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(I think the traditional wording of the phrase is a tad harsh, but..) I think it is a case of "When you really love your hammer, everything looks like a nail."
Looks interesting, but can you give an example using MS Tests/NUnit that's much simpler/clearer with ExpectBetter?
I love how someone always hauls out this set of speech codes every time there's any discussion of race or gender in a forum as if there's a "correct way" to participate. If you want let a bunch politically correct rules dictate how you discuss these issues then go ahead, but please don't expect the rest us to follow suit. Hopefully, the rest of HN doesn't subscribe to that kind of self-censorship.
uh... I have never had a day when I said "I'm Bored" like that. What you describe as all the Productivity stuff that can be done with zero coding isn't really all that Drupal developers do. At least not where I work. We are writing custom code/modules on a daily basis... not just "every now and then". But I guess it comes down to the type of site you're building.

But I have had my fair share of "WTF?" and "Damn it, Drupal!" moments. That much is true.
The creator was right, manufacturing a firearm for your own personal use is quite legal in the U.S.A. - it doesn't even have to be serialized (though this is a good practice). At the same time we now have an application for 3D printing that the original manufacturer never envisioned and probably rubs them the wrong way. Ah, technology.
All the comments below (ha I hope!) are arguing for Mozilla persona

* I want to use email as username

* limit the number of possible ways to login (no NASCAR)

* I want to keep personal and business logins seperate

* don't slap competitor logos all over my pages (CEO quite right there)

this however all begs the question how do I move accounts to a new login?

Few sites (stackoverflow is a shining exception) allow you to associate more than one login with one account. And fewer give different settings by login (admin, power user etc)

we have been lulled by oauth and openid into thinking we have just to authenticate me, rather than authorise a role - and few sites have concepts ofanything other than one role == one set of privileges == one login.

There is a reckoning coming - it is when these sites need to provide fine grained control, as businesses run on them full time, we shall discover why ACLs exist, and what chmod is for. It's going to be painful. But then it's better for mailchimp to take the pain in a couple of years than not be there at all

now go install persona. And allow me to associate more than one login with one account
UltraViolet is supposed to be that, although it's taking a while to get going.
Maybe I'm a strange person, but unencrypted FTP makes me cringe. I'd much rather add a Filepicker-specific SSH key restricted to sftp/scp.
And that's not even taking into account that the random dragging in of resources from these places allows them to track which of their users visit which other sites.
uh, where'd you get 24? how about 10 X 9 X 8 X 7 = 5040 combinations.
I think it was just a case of Schneier being a bit of his usual contrarian self. But is he correct in his assertion that the security of SHA-3 is not going to be much greater than that of SHA-2? (I don't mean that as a leading question.)
Interesting article. For me the two most surprising takeaways were that most people survive an accident, and the other was how cheap the plane was.

They paid $400,000 for the plane. By comparison they paid $150,000 each for each of 3 test dummies in the plane. The test dummies cost more than the plane!
Glad to see the advertising dollars from Honey Boo Boo went towards something useful!
How are they paying for this?
That's actually a clever idea, and opens up the door to connecting to servers directly over ssh
I see them as distinct phenomena. I don't think making jokes about rape is literally as bad as rape. I'm not concerned that notch might be abusing animals because of his jokes. I don't think rape jokes are dangerous directly because I don't like rape.

I still think people should exercise more caution before making jokes about rape. It's very easy to get them wrong.
I am not sure he is using the tone argument, since he concludes with "but I agree that the author deserves some justice.". He may just be suggesting that many here at HN attack the author due to the racist tone of the post.

Pointing out an ugly tone does not mean you think it invalidates the argument.
Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4604188
Samsung did not start this litigation - Apple did. You are saying that Samsung are just as culpable because they didn't just choose to sit back and take it?
Except he never used that sort of language towards his coworkers at a professional setting.
It used to be I could run some Steam related software offline, as in no internet connection. I seem to have lost that ability. I do not remember when the change was made but it makes me leery about buying ANYTHING through Steam and there are some games I want that are connected to them.

If I buy a BOXED copy of a game I expect it to work without any other need other than the machine I install it on. This crap about requiring an internet connection is ridiculous. I have the discs, I even have the key still. Yet it will not run because my connection is down or worse their server is? (and yes Steam has had authentication issues)
What protocol do you guys use to talk to Sharepoint?
They only built 21 of them so a lot of R&D is included in that figure. Still, we have actually gotten a lot of use out of each of those B2's. If they had built 22 of them the 22nd would have not cost nearly as much.

While it's true B-52's do most of the actual bombing it's only after stealth aircraft like B2's take out air defenses that you can swap to using B-52 safely. Not to mention aircraft are just expensive for comparison a 747-8F: costs US$352 million. Where a B-52H: was only US$53.4 million in 1998 dollars.

PS: In theory long range missiles can take out air defenses there bloody expensive at US$569,000 to 1.4 million a pop vs. equally accurate smart bombs are a small fraction of that.
I'm finding it very hard to feel any sympathy for these advertisers.
What does "greater" mean? I buy into the idea that the attack that breaks SHA-2 is unlikely to break SHA-3, and vice versa, and that's apparently a key design goal for the standard.
Shunning of racists?
We're using the ability to talk over CMIS added in Sharepoint 2010
I think Apple was able to secure these content deals because of their massive userbase.
The base price will update once a day (on average) but I'm hoping to build something based on facebook likes and twitter tweets that affects it and we can check that a few times a day without doing affecting the endpoint servers
Interesting article, perhaps if a few of those "I'm bored"s were changed to "I'm helping make Drupal suck less by writing some documentation" or "I'm learning cool new stuff cos Drupal does the generic boring stuff for me" the author would have a more fulfilling life.

If everyone blows a little more energy back into the Drupal project, it'll suck a lot less ;)
You are very likely already exposing that via a timing attack. If you disallow many login attempts in quick succession then it is also a non issue. If you have that in place and somebody is able to guess the password of a random account (it's an account found by randomly trying usernames after all), then it must be an extremely bad password. The benefits far outweigh the minuscule security risk.
Consider this a second request ;) I don't have neither accounts, but would really like to register; it seems very interesting.
As of 6:30ish p.m. EST, this (http://linkdaq.net/sites/247vicodindrugstore.com) is one of the top "movers and shakers"... Can that be where the prize comes from? ;)
I love how someone always hauls out that set of speech codes every time there's any discussion of race or gender in a forum, as if there's a "correct way" to participate in these discussions. You're not our proctor. If you want to let that absurd list of rules dictate how you discuss these issues then go ahead but please don't expect the rest us to follow suit. Hopefully the rest of HN doesn't subscribe to that kind of self-censorship.
Murderous rage = being very angry. Not wanting to literally kill someone.
if you play your cards right ;)
Luckily there are enough software people like yours truly who know how to solve these problems. Solving them requires tradeoffs, so you also need product people who understand those tradeoffs and make the right calls. This is what failed at Friendster, and not at Facebook or LinkedIn. Read this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2370291

Edit: do you have an idea of the size of your 3rd-degree network at Facebook? Do you care? :)
Google Rolling Out Micropayments for Web Content
Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY
Excellent short talk. The comments bring out the usual Microsoft haters and the usual "why do we need another language?"ers, but the ones that make sense to me comment on the tastefulness of the Javascript extensions. If "open source" actually means something I'd recognize as open source, I'll have to give it a try.
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Thanks! I don't have any publishable code samples handy, but will add them soon. Off the top of my head, it could be clearer to say `Expect.The(graph).Not.ToHaveCycles()` than it would be to implement using basic assertions.

I'll put something together to illustrate - thanks for the feedback.
BillGuard integrates with iOS 6 Passbook
We just finished our integration with Apple Passbook, offering live monitoring of your credit cards bills for fraudulent charges.

It wasn't easy at all, Passbook is still in it's diapers, give it a try.
Typescript has static type annotations. All those things are already easy in that context.
And here I was thinking brogramming was just a total self-aware meme that went from pun to Twilio's joke presentation to media hysteria. Are you telling me this is a real subculture which exists in Silicon Valley now?
It's Gonzalez-Servin v. Ford Motor Co. wherein Posner chastised the plaintiffs' attorneys for ignoring certain unfavorable case law. The published opinion contains images of an ostrich and a lawyer burying their heads in the sand.

http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/11-...
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Here are his comments about this announcement:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/keccak_is_sha-...
Do we need a "consensus opinion"? Does it need to happen here?

My point is that discussing controversial social issues is generally unproductive. Worth thinking about, but unless PG devotes his next essay to this topic, I don't think anyone is going to be changing their minds here.

For what it's worth I agree with most of your comments on this thread, and the backlash you are getting has really lowered my average opinion of this community. It's disgusting.
To clarify. Sharepoint is in the works. Not live yet.
Your definition of thuggish seems a bit off. Thug = a common criminal, who treats others violently and roughly.

It's akin to calling someone 'white trash'.
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90% marketshare was effective for IE6 forcing other vendors' hands. Not that that's a good model to go back to. :)
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I have just left my Drupal job for a Rails job, pretty much for the reasons listed here... I'm certainly going to be making _more_ money doing it too.

I reckon 40 hours a week (or whatever you work) is far too many to be doing something that leaves you bored or frustrated for a reasonable percentage of the time.
I am puzzled by this:

"Good Drupal developers are making a lot of money right now, much more than I'm seeing for Django or Rails or Node devs in general."

I am curious where this is? This is not true in New York City, where I am. Developers who are good with a given PHP framework (Drupal, Symfony, etc) will make something like $60 to $70 an hour. The top Rails devs will make at least the same amount, and usually a little more than that.
... but what if I want one with a frown?

;-)

just kidding. awesome work, guys!
There's a Full Android Phone in This Week's Entertainment Weekly
The CW put a "live Twitter feed" inside its ad in EW this week. It turns out, that feed is a full-blown Android smartphone.
I'm going to try and hijack this a little, just because I'm afraid it won't be seen anywhere else.

I don't have a problem with racist/sexist jokes. I do however have a sever issue with healthcare and quality of education being tied to your parents employment and property ownership. I think that is much, much more terrible, as it not only screws over the poor in general, but in particular it really fucks over black people/hispanics/immigrants specifically simply because they are on average much poorer.

I guess I'm just really upset over the huge fuss people make over the word nigger. It's an incredibly powerful word that taints anything it touches, and because of its association it becomes particularly hard for people in general to understand that the most racist things don't target the race of anyone, just their income level.

So, yes, I think the author did go through some stupid shit because his coworkers are assholes. However, they probably aren't racist. They look down on most of society.
What the article doesn't say is how many platters in a current 3TB hard drive. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/servers_storage/seagate... says there are 3 platters in the newest Seagate drives - so potentially we could see 6TB drives from this!
I agree - Perhaps some more active contribution rather than just the usual "I'm bored", etc. Why not be more proactive.
Good point.
Couldn't agree more. Having built a range of Drupal sites on a freelance basis, I can confirm that you can do crazy amounts of work with just a few clicks of the mouse. The moment you realize you need to customize, however, is a dreadful one.
If this guy was white and calling everyone "dumbblack------" no one would be upvoting this.
Yes, higher oil prices are starting to affect profit margins, the cost of shipping a 40 foot container has tripled since the 2000s. Shipping finished products is getting more expensive.

Lead times are also very important, it takes about a month to get something from china to the US. This means that you need higher inventory levels in order to be able satisfy the demand without considerable shortages.

When you take into account the variety of configurations available its very hard not to get low rotation items on your inventory. Specially if you are expected to always have stock and when your inventory levels have to consider that it takes a month to get an item to the US.

Shifting assembly to the US reduces the number of SKUs imported and allows an easier control over inventory levels and supply chain costs.
Note that Schneier hedges in a very similar matter about AES, suggesting in _Practical Cryptography_ that XSL attacks made him dubious of AES's long-term security --- or at least, that if you're "paranoid about your data", that you should use Serpent instead of AES/Rijndael.
This is off-topic, but Red Dwarf is also one of the best sitcoms. My nickname is inspired by it :)